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 Frances Duchess of Richmond, by Lely. A distinguished character in the memoirs of the lively Count Grammont, by her maiden name of Stuart. Her portrait is amongst the beauties at Windsor, and she was generally considered the brightest gem in the court of Charles II. who would gladly have divorced his queen, and raised her to his throne. She had the art of fascinating all classes; insomuch that Rotier the engraver was so passionately enamoured with her, as to display her face on various medals in the character of Britannia, and the resemblance is easily recogn'zed.

Sir William Fairfax, of Steton in Yorkshire, knt. father of

Catherine first wife of Sir Charles Lyttelton, by Lely. She died in Jamaica, and was buried in the church at Spanish-Town, 1662, aged 26.

Sir Charles Lyttelton in armour, with a black boy, by Le Fcvre; a steady adherent to the House of Stuart, and serving in the garrison at Colchester, when so severely besieged by Cromwell's forces. On its surrender, he escaped into France, but returned on Sir George Booth declaring in Cheshire for the King. The design failing, Lyttelton was imprisoned at the Gatehouse, Westminster, from whence he again repaired to Charles on being liberated, and was highly serviceable as a